The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-10-27
DliIC-A-BRAC.
HER CHINA CUP.


Her china cup is white AMI thin:
a thousand times her heart has bccu
Made merry at lis scallopei brink;
And il The bottom, painted pink,
\ dragon grccls her with grin.
The brim her kisses love to win:
The handle is a mankin,
Who spies the foes that chip or chiDk
Her china cup.
Mu.c, tell nc if it bc a sin;
| watch her lift it past her chin
Up to the scarlet lips and drink
The Gol0ng draught. Somehow I think
Id like to be lhc dragon in
Her china cup
4 lazy man is always equal to the cxcr-
tiOn Of eating.
Why is q book like a king? Because i.
has great many pages.
LOsiCg the thread Of the story is fatal to
the spinning of sca-y0rn.
The home strctch-Fixing up Il story to
tell your wife at a. VI.
The man who is always getting mad is
said to have plenty of outrage.
ca ties in Spain have been decided to be
personal property and not real estate.
This country is over hundred years
oid, and its constitution is rs good as ever.
The shooting season commences when
people begin TO make game OF tie White
hat.
Why does Il wedding ceremony never
pass off smoothly? Because it involves a
hitch.
y fashionable and much-trimmcd cos.
tune is described as being ''stur and nom
sense"
Fowls have gzHardS to grind thcir feed
hence whole grain fed occasionally is in
the line Of nature.
Scientists say that the st.ture of the
human race is increasing ut the rate Of one
inch III thousand years
Joshua stopped the sun, hut it would
have puzzled him 90 stop h0btailcd street
car after it had passed him a rod.
What is the difference between an auc-
ton and Sca-StClimcss? One is q sHiG Of
effects, the other is the effects Of sail.
"W"iling' is the stumbling block Of
progress and reform. Doing is the lever
that moves the world.
a hcldlinist has invented the world
'cl0llSt one who ClOpCs. The fool lillist
should call upon that whist.
KosSulh is remembered by his hat, ana
Gdrihaldt for his red flannel shirt, and yrf
1t is said clothes do not make the man.
SupCrIiuOus tools arc Il disadvantage, rs.
Tor instance, when n member Of an OrChcS-
ira has Il horn too many.
TO the machine in which you drop ynur
nickel and get weighed there is to he added
similar apparatus by which lady can
perfume her handkerchief.
Fancy hair-pins continue to be worn,
and are fashionable in amber or precious
stones. Rhine stones make an effective
setting.
Il may he small, but I'm Il rOuScr," said
the hotel brll-boy, as he went the rounds
awakening patrons who had left orders to
BE- called carly.
1t is said that plant is found in Madras
that destroys the relish for tobacco and
cigars The same plant is found in CON-
nccticut, where it is called the cabbage
"Advicr, says a philosopher, "shouid
come tn lis like Il gentle fall of snow. -
Very true; but We usually receive ii rs if it
were shower bath.
When you see a man trying in vain to
uproot Il lamp post you may be sure of one
of two things-cithcr the post is tight or
the man is.
Large fortunes have been realized from
companies pay rs high as twenty-five per
cent. dividends.
There is nothing conSoatOry for the pa
ticnt suffering from severe cold in the
head to be told that "colds attack the
weakest spot"
d chemist snyS wood can be made pal
atablc and nOurish'ng. 1t will not startlc
many 10 announce tnat good board can be
made out Of saw logs.
Counscl-IIad the accused any distin-
gushing features by which you recognized
him? Wimcss-Ycs, sir; he was bow
legged in both eyes.
y traveller called for mint sauce in a
h0tcl the other day, and the waiter said
they had none, adding, "Our cook makes
all the mince into pies, not sauce"
1t is said that it costs railroad company
six hundred dollars more to put up one
thousand SIGNS reading "LOok out for the
locomotive" the same number reading
Danger" And the latter are the most
effective, too.